The Thornless Rose

**First place win in the Golden Rose Contest.
Semi-finalist in the William Faulkner/William Wisdom Creative Writing
Competition. Finalist in the Pacific Northwest Writers' Contest.**

What happened to Dr. Jonathan Brandon, a
dashing RAF flight surgeon, who disappeared from London in 1945?
Kidnapping? Murder? Or did Brandon merely vanish of his own free
will, seeking another life? American teacher Anne Howard is stunned
by a different explanation―that her British grandmother’s long-lost
fiancé was unwillingly wrenched back through time, to Elizabethan
England. Anne knows time travel is nonsense―until she is handed a
fresh-cut thornless rose, a bloom extinct for over four hundred
years! And then, when the impossible happens and Anne journeys back
to 1560 London, she must somehow survive encounters with royal
enemies, accusations of witchcraft and the possibility of never
returning home. In the midst of the chaos, she meets Brandon. Drawn
into the perilous web of Elizabethan court life, they must confront
their growing feelings for each other, complicated by poignant
familial ties, while struggling with the shared danger of knowing
what the future holds.